The Homework Results are in!

Find out what Blakers said when they were asked:

👉🏼Do you record your homework on a regular basis? 🙋🏾‍♀️What method did you use to record your homework last year?

👀Have you ever tried any of the following ways to record your homework?

• Sticky

• My Homework

• Notes

• Reminders

• Google Keep

• Paper agenda

🆕Please pick a homework recording strategy that you are going to try for the first term. 

🦄What do you like about the strategy that you chose? (Why did you choose it?) 

Check out the survey results... any surprises? AND..You can hear it directly from Blakers themselves via FlipGrid !

If you have a new strategy or app that wasn't mentioned above, feel free to leave a comment to share yours!

Homework?!! What Homework?

Every middle schooler has probably created their special way of managing their homework. Some probably work better than others and with technology, there's probably some completely new ways that you might never have thought of before.

Now that the school year has begun and so have those homework routines, it's a perfect time to start checking in on their methods. This Wednesday's Advisory will focus on exploring and crowd-sourcing all of those strategies to share with each other. Also, we would like to ask students to consider a different strategy that caught their interest.... & maybe even take it for a test-drive during the first term.

Start thinking about the following questions and then, take the survey for your grade level through the links below.

👉🏼Do you record your homework on a regular basis? 🙋🏾‍♀️What method did you use to record your homework last year?

👀Have you ever tried any of the following ways to record your homework?

• Sticky

• My Homework

• Notes

• Reminders

• Google Keep

• Paper agenda

🆕Please pick a homework recording strategy that you are going to try for the first term. *

🦄What do you like about the strategy that you chose? (Why did you choose it?) *

These are the questions you'll answer on the survey below. 6th Grade: Homework tracking/Time management - Google Form

7th Grade: Binder organization/ Homework tracking - Google Form

8th Grade: Binder organization/ Homework tracking- Google Form

Don't forget to Flipgrid your thoughts and ideas to share with the Blake Community!

(Ask Ms. Horvath for the Flipgrid code if you haven't joined yet)

We're gonna do this.. to-gether!

Our second week of Wednesday Advisory moves into Team-Building. This advisory thread is one that was a student-choice topic based on last year's feedback. You'll find that throughout the year, we will focus on continuous team-building as it helps students get to know each other, helps support positive peer relationships, and helps students learn to problem-solve collaboratively.

Suggested lessons and activities for this week:

6th grade advisories will explore and learn how to use their iOS calendars.

7th grade advisories can play a trivia game

8th grade advisories can continue the 30 second elevator pitch activity, choose a different team-building activity or try the trivia game.

30 Second Elevator Pitch- Develop an introductory statement to help get your Advisory and Advisor to know you. Advisors can participate too!

Things to include/think about:

Who am I? The basics about you (don’t forget your name).

What have you been up to lately (past and present experiences)?

The future (what goal(s) do you have for this year).

How you will contribute to this Advisory and/or what do you want to get out of this Advisory?

Anything you would like us to know about you?

Get creative- you could make it a poem or a song

This particular activity would be perfect to share in our Blake Wednesday Advisory Flipgrid Community. Please email Diane if you need the code.